Well have been meaning to do this for a long time and is a bit ironic to be doing it now considering that i have probably completed the best part of the project already, but i have been polluting other peoples threads for to long now and have a fair few of my own which i will link to here and try to consolodate all further tat in one place
Ive followed this forum for some time now but really wished i had found it and followed its advise and experiances sooner but we all live and learn, as this was the first car that i had persued the route of performance modifing so has been a very steep learning curve and this forum and the people have been invaluable, as well as making some good friends along the way with hopefully many more to follow
Any how this is the only photo i have got of it in standard form, i know its a crap photo but its the only one ive got (wish i got some more along the coarse of the project)
The modding journey all started with an AMD stage 1 map and 007p (after i promissed the family and over half i wouldn't modify this one as it was fast and nice enough)
The map when uploaded gave me 2hp originally but after a few boost leaks were sorted and breather pipes replaced this was the outcome
Which was pretty chuffed with but that only lasted about 2 months till when i bought a milltek res cat back and high flow cats, and powertec induction kit and went back to AMD for stage 2
The results were very impressive although i have later learnt that their rollers can be quite happy
After this i then started to research a little on th net but not always getting good information including some bad information at the time on a bad front brake set up which all became very clear why my front brakes were ****e about a year later on here
Boxster S/996 carrera rear set up, tried various pads etc and they're on 325mm disks from daveb but always didn't quite cut the mustard but had sold the standards so just changing back was not an option
By this time i had followed audisport for a while and thought might as well join and started posting the odd coment and was finding very good advise on this site and sure i will continue to do so
Any hows i had done a few more mods in the process including coilovers, ah v1 fmic, andymac stealth sub and bought the liquid guage which to this date has been an amazing bit of kit for diagnosing faults etc and would highly reconmend it to anyone
Next step which i know some people would say is over kill but after nearly being killed due to ****e brakes multiple times i managed to pick up and ecs kit for a mk 5 golf with the cayenne 6 pots for £500 on ebay, and sold the mounting brackets, discs and old set up it only cost me the cost of the paint (£20) with new ebc discs athough hadnt bargined for how expensive some decent pads would be for them
http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/a3-s3-forum-8l-chassis/134097-ferodo-ds-ebc-stuff.html
And of coarse the ecs discs
To be continued...
Ive followed this forum for some time now but really wished i had found it and followed its advise and experiances sooner but we all live and learn, as this was the first car that i had persued the route of performance modifing so has been a very steep learning curve and this forum and the people have been invaluable, as well as making some good friends along the way with hopefully many more to follow
Any how this is the only photo i have got of it in standard form, i know its a crap photo but its the only one ive got (wish i got some more along the coarse of the project)
The modding journey all started with an AMD stage 1 map and 007p (after i promissed the family and over half i wouldn't modify this one as it was fast and nice enough)
The map when uploaded gave me 2hp originally but after a few boost leaks were sorted and breather pipes replaced this was the outcome
Which was pretty chuffed with but that only lasted about 2 months till when i bought a milltek res cat back and high flow cats, and powertec induction kit and went back to AMD for stage 2
The results were very impressive although i have later learnt that their rollers can be quite happy
After this i then started to research a little on th net but not always getting good information including some bad information at the time on a bad front brake set up which all became very clear why my front brakes were ****e about a year later on here
Boxster S/996 carrera rear set up, tried various pads etc and they're on 325mm disks from daveb but always didn't quite cut the mustard but had sold the standards so just changing back was not an option
By this time i had followed audisport for a while and thought might as well join and started posting the odd coment and was finding very good advise on this site and sure i will continue to do so
Any hows i had done a few more mods in the process including coilovers, ah v1 fmic, andymac stealth sub and bought the liquid guage which to this date has been an amazing bit of kit for diagnosing faults etc and would highly reconmend it to anyone
Next step which i know some people would say is over kill but after nearly being killed due to ****e brakes multiple times i managed to pick up and ecs kit for a mk 5 golf with the cayenne 6 pots for £500 on ebay, and sold the mounting brackets, discs and old set up it only cost me the cost of the paint (£20) with new ebc discs athough hadnt bargined for how expensive some decent pads would be for them
http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/a3-s3-forum-8l-chassis/134097-ferodo-ds-ebc-stuff.html
And of coarse the ecs discs
To be continued...
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